Log Lane’s new water meters getting installed

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Log Lane Village’s Town Hall/Community Building is located at 109 Maine St. The multi-purpose building holds the town clerk’s office, public works office, Log Lane Marshal’s Office and serves as the location for Log Lane Municipal Court proceedings.

Starting this week, Log Lane Village residents may notice workmen showing up and working on their water meters, according to Town Clerk Marty Dasovich.

“The much anticipated and well overdue water metering system replacement will begin” this week, he announced Friday.

The contractor, Aclara/HD Systems, will have installation crews arriving early this week, and then the replacement of the old water system will get going.

While that his happening, Log Lane residents “may experience short interruptions in water services periodically throughout the week,” Dasovich warned. “Please bear with us during this process.”

But he also was excited about finally getting the town’s water meter system replaced.

“Can I get a ‘yay!’ for the new system implementation!” he exclaimed.

Log Lane had struggled with its old water meters for many years, with issues both with missing or corroded parts, dirty meters that needed time-consuming cleaning and problems being read by the meter-reading equipment and requiring “hand reads” whether staff had to walk around and manually record the monthly water use recorded by meters.

All of those issues had led to concerns about whether residents were being billed accurately for their water consumption, as well as how much staff time was being taken up by this.

In June, the Log Lane Board of Trustees voted to spend approximately $154,520 on a new water meter system from Aclara/HD Systems, and now it is going to be installed.

That money had been budgeted for a street replacement and water line work, but the board decided that the water meter system replacement was the more pressing issue and better use of town funds right now.